This series is written by a private citizen with an abiding interest in U.S. history and particularly its founding documents: The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution.

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Consider if you will the fact that had we followed the Constitution during the past 110 years, we would not have the following:

• A Federal Reserve System

• An income tax and an Internal Revenue Service

• Undeclared wars in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq

• Department of Education

• Department of Energy

None of these situations is authorized or possible under the Constitution. In fact, they are all violations of the basic document, the 16th Amendment (income tax) notwithstanding.

Consider what that would mean in terms of our situation today.

There would have been no inflation to speak of since the currency of the country would have been controlled by Article I, Sec. 8 ¶5. That paragraph authorizes only Congress to ” . . coin Money, regulate the value thereof … " not the Federal Reserve which has created money such that you, the citizen and taxpayer, have no idea what the real (intrinsic) value is of a "dollar,” if there is any at all.

Gold and silver were the standard in which the Founding Fathers put their faith having experienced the debacle of fiat money during the Revolution. The common name for the paper money of the day was, "Not worth a Continental.” Who would refer to the present Federal Reserve notes as "good as gold?”

Certainly not any thinking citizen or the Bank of China, which holds most of the US debt as of today!

Further on, the Constitution (Art. 9, Sec. 10, ¶1 stipulates that, "No state shall . . . coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts …" There isn't a state in the Union that abides by that restriction. Why? Can't they read or have we completely abandoned our founding document?

For those of you, dear readers, who have watched your savings destroyed by the actions of the Federal Reserve, don't you wish the government and your elected officials had lived up to their "oath of office" to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States? Had they done so, your dollar would be worth 100 cents instead of current estimates of about 4 cents (as compared to its value in 1904)!

Perhaps you voted for those elected officials who supported the Federal Reserve System as well as those politicians who promised you "something for nothing.” Think about it. It is a serious situation and it can only be corrected by you as a voter recognizing what hypocrisy and demagoguery have done. Your Representative holds the key since the House of Representatives controls the purse strings of the nation.

No country in the history of the world has ever spent itself into prosperity! Quite the contrary, it has spent itself into destruction as its money became worthless and its economy collapsed. Such countries became prey to their aggressive neighbors who took them over.

Is the US destined to be taken over by an outside force? Could it be the North American Union which had as part of its origin the Security and Prosperity Agreement signed by the US President, Canadian Prime Minister and the Mexican President? Its ultimate purpose was the "melding of the three nations" into a single regional government with each becoming a subservient province. A currency, unofficially dubbed the Amero, was considered an integral part of the activity.

That approach stalled, not due to our government waking up, but because concerned citizens educated to the potential loss of independence derailed the effort.

In subsequent articles we shall address the unconstitutional aspects of the income tax, undeclared wars and the destructive departments of Education and Energy. Stay tuned.

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